Kissing is the best expression of love. It does not need words to send a message. If you're a sucker for romantic movies, you have witnessed this countless times. It is not merely lips that touch each other. It has health benefits as well. Look at that. It lessens stress. Kissing has a calm...

If they had it to do all over again, Benton Woods, Neal Canady, Ira Lindsey, John McLeod, and Ben Smith would have stayed home on Saturday nights a century ago. On two consecutive Saturday nights in Emanuel County, Georgia, two Emanuel County sheriff's deputies were shot by their prisoners. And...

A POT TO CHIP IN - Abraham Lease wanted to do something to help his adopted country of the United States of America. His son Izzie flew with the Army Ferrying Command. Another son, Nat Lease, also a pilot, was stationed in Lubbock, Texas. There was a war going on in his native homeland of Russ...

by SyndiMcKinnon

Apr 27, 2011 | 4 | 362 |

Hello, My name is Synthia and I currently live in Texas. My story begins with my grandfather, who was named Abie McKinnon from Claxton, Georgia. About 7 years ago, I spoke with a man that either lived in Nederland or the Lumberton area here in Texas. After awhile, I asked him how his family bega...

The Music Man Cometh Our band didn't exactly have seventy-six trombones. Four was all we had. There weren't one hundred ten cornets right behind either. But, we did have six. The Dublin Band wasn't the biggest band around, but from 1911-1915, the twenty or so piece marching band was regard...

WHOA NELLIE! The final score was Dublin 34, Sandersville 17. No, it wasn't a football score from the early 1960s. Nor was it the final tally of a basketball game back in the 1940s. What happened on the 6th day of June in 1954 was nothing less than unbelievable. For the 51 points on the scoreb...

"Hoorah! Hoorah!" Charlestonians were licking their fire-eating lips as they salivated at the thought of devouring the Union Army. A 128-man Federal garrison was hunkering in the heart of Charleston Harbor like a school of fish trapped inside a barrel of stones and brick. Named Fort Sumter i...

The Easter Torrent If you were alive in the spring of 1936 and didn't believe in Armageddon, you might have had second thoughts. Over in Europe, Adolph Hitler was threatening to take over the continent and the rest of the hemisphere as well. In the Northeast, monumental floods ravaged New Engl...

You have never seen Laura Darley's picture on the front page of the Courier Herald. People like her rarely wind up on the front page of any newspaper. That doesn't mean that you won't recognize her if you see her. Many of you have eaten lunch with her. You may have seen her in the lunchroom a...